I just built my rig w/ the following specs
shuttle ak35gtr
amd 1700xp
msi gf4 ti4400
40gb maxtor
sb pci 16
netgear fa11 ethernet card
The thing is my system use to freeze everytime i'd do something intensive (runs @ 41c under load), and the sound would just continuosly repeat. I figured this to be the infinite loop problem. So I set my sound acceleration to basic, so as to alleviate the problem. However it continued. I figured if it wasnt the soundcard (sound-card had worked fine on other via mobo after set to basic) it must either be the video card or the motherboard. After a while, my brother got tired of the freezing and did something (apparently he enabled the onboard sound and the raid), and everytime I'd boot up my computer it would say new pci multimedia device found, and we'd just hit cancel, and the computer never froze after that. However just recently the computer started acting up again. It would freeze after about 5 minutes of ie use, and anything that taxed the system (games for example). It would freeze, then the screen would turn black and the monitor indicator light would turn yellow as if recieving no signal, then i would hit a few keys and the indicator light turned green as if back on, but all i could notice on the screen was some distortion on the screen (either 2 or 3 lines up top, or a pixel in the upper left-corner of the screen). I have no idea what's wrong w/ this machine. Anyone out there have similar probs w/ either of these components? I have an old video card, I guess I could i give that a try. I'm runinng win 98 se. Thanks
shuttle ak35gtr
amd 1700xp
msi gf4 ti4400
40gb maxtor
sb pci 16
netgear fa11 ethernet card
The thing is my system use to freeze everytime i'd do something intensive (runs @ 41c under load), and the sound would just continuosly repeat. I figured this to be the infinite loop problem. So I set my sound acceleration to basic, so as to alleviate the problem. However it continued. I figured if it wasnt the soundcard (sound-card had worked fine on other via mobo after set to basic) it must either be the video card or the motherboard. After a while, my brother got tired of the freezing and did something (apparently he enabled the onboard sound and the raid), and everytime I'd boot up my computer it would say new pci multimedia device found, and we'd just hit cancel, and the computer never froze after that. However just recently the computer started acting up again. It would freeze after about 5 minutes of ie use, and anything that taxed the system (games for example). It would freeze, then the screen would turn black and the monitor indicator light would turn yellow as if recieving no signal, then i would hit a few keys and the indicator light turned green as if back on, but all i could notice on the screen was some distortion on the screen (either 2 or 3 lines up top, or a pixel in the upper left-corner of the screen). I have no idea what's wrong w/ this machine. Anyone out there have similar probs w/ either of these components? I have an old video card, I guess I could i give that a try. I'm runinng win 98 se. Thanks